MESON Chess Problem Database

Problem Display
PID: 23592 (6K1/8/8/8/2N1kN2/6Q1/P7/8 w - - 0 1)

Blakemore, JT

The Chess Player's Chronicle (Sampson), 1881

6K1/8/8/8/2N1kN2/6Q1/P7/8

#3

5 + 1

187 The Chess Bouquet 1897
3713 Snap 2007

SOLUTION

  • SOUND
  • Tries
    • 1.a3?
      • 1...Kd4
        • 2.Qd3+
          • 2...Kc5
            • 3.Qd5#
      • 1...Kf5!
  • Keys
    • 1.Se6!
      • 1...Kd5
        • 2.Qf3+
          • 2...Kxc4
            • 3.Qb3#
          • 2...Kxe6
            • 3.Qf7#
      • 1...Kf5
        • 2.Qf4+
          • 2...Kxe6
            • 3.Qf7#
          • 2...Kg6
            • 3.Qg5#

This anticipates 4259(1884)

FEATURES

NOT CLASSIFIED
HTML5 logo

Developed and maintained by Brian Stephenson.
Implemented with HTML5, MySQL, Perl (with, inter alia, CGI::Simple, HTML::Template & XML::LibXML) & CSS/Javascript (jQuery, Bootstrap & DataTables).